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From: "Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] log --graph: draw '>' and '<' with --left-right
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 15:14:13 +0200
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Sverre just notified me that the commit message is not brilliant.  How
> about this:
>
> -- snip --
> When calling "git log --left-right <branch1>...<branch2>", a single "<" or
> ">" is shown in front of the commit line, to indicate which branch1 this
> commit comes from, branch1 or branch2.
>
> However, it is easy to miss in the output of "git log --graph ...", since
> the graph still has "*" for regular commits and "M" for merge commits.  So
> imitate gitk, and show the "<" and ">" characters in the graph, too,
> instead of "*" (or "M").
> -- snap --

I admit that I didn't know how gitk does things, but yeah, this is a
lot more explanatory and makes sense :).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier